Tuesday Mar 31 was World Backup Day. Wednesday April 1 was April Fool’s Day. Any chance there is a connection?
Time to get of the dime and set up your computer to backup your important data, files, pictures, business records, Quickbooks data, etc. All it takes a failed hard drive, theft, fire, tornado, or other natural or man-made disaster and all your important digital assets are gone. Our favorite solution is Carbonite.
Go one – you can do it!
“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” – Steve Wozniak, co-creator of the Apple computer
I just started reading a book from 1999, written by Ray Kurweil called The Age of Spiritual Machines. This book explores the consequences of our technological changes as they relate to AI or Artificial Intelligence, sometimes called “the Singularity,” and the future of the human race in the age of self-aware machines. We have all see the “Terminator” movie series, with its ...
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30
MAR
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Thanks to Joe Soucheray and his radio show’ “Garage Logic” I learned that animator Chuck Jones of Looney Tunes fame had rules for this staff to follow when creating the story arc for a Road Runner cartoon. Back in the day, when there were only 3 broadcast networks, a public broadcast network, and maybe an independent local channel, (that’s right ...
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29
MAR
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I was reading an article on Sophos about the Anthem Healthcare breach, and putting this information together with some other articles I have read recently, and this question came to mind: what personal information is the worst to lose? In the Anthem breach, people lost information that included their “names, dates of birth, member ID/social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, ...
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27
MAR
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We have alerted our readers to many of the approach vectors that are used by cyber-criminals to gain network access, tactics such as phishing and spearphishing, drive-by downloads from compromised websites, installing remote access Trojan horse software, and the like. Sometimes the easiest way to get the network credentials you need is simply to ask for them. One of the methods that have been increasing is impersonating IT staff, either by email, or directly via a phone call. We ...
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25
MAR
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Is it time to change your password? Now that security researcher Alex Holden, of Hold Security in Milwaukee has uncovered a huge trove of stolen user credentials on the Dark Net, you might as well assume that yours are in this mammoth collection.
Alex Holden was born in the Ukraine, and his current surname is not the one he was given at birth. But he discovered that Russian cyber-criminals had gathered 542 million email addresses and 1.2 billion unique email and ...
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23
MAR
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A “bot-net” is a robot network comprised of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of “zombie hosts,” as computers that are infected with bot malware are called. Botnets are created by a type of professional cyber-criminal known as a “bot-herder,” and generally rented out to other criminals for sending millions of spam messages daily, running huge parallel processing tasks such as password cracking operation, or used by extortionists, hacktivists, and government sponsored ...
